American English pronunciation
How to pronounce burg
IPA transcription: ['bɚɡ]
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Noun
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colloquial American term for a town
“I've lived in this burg all my life”
Usage examples
- He was born in Rexburg, Idaho.
- The Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen received Saxe-Altenburg, and gave the district of Hildburghausen to Saxe-Meiningen.
- He became a merchant travelling to Portugal, Brazil and Hamburg.
- As a young man he came to Pittsburgh and started a thriving grocery business.
- The "Burgwaldbahn" railway line connects the town with Marburg and Frankenberg.
- The Borough is served by the Stroudsburg Area School District.
- There has been a robbery at the burger shop in downtown.
- Craven contacts Jedburgh and asks him to accompany him inside Northmoor.
- Along with William of Newburgh, he recorded the earliest stories of English vampires.
- His maternal grandfather worked for Stinnes in Saint Petersburg.